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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785585803321

Autore

Donahue W

Titolo

Holocaust as Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and Their Films / / by W. Donahue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-99363-1

9786612993633

0-230-11546-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

833/.914

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

European literature

Fiction

Literature—History and criticism

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Twentieth-Century Literature

European Literature

Literary History

Cultural Studies

Regional and Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : "Mighty aphrodite" or, How to have it both ways -- Resister after the fact : Schlink's Selb-trilogy and the culture of politically correct Holocaust literature -- Soothing fictions : ambiguity as defense -- "What would you have done?" : guilt as virtue -- Fathers and sons : two kinds of second generation victim -- The reader as an American novel -- The Hollywood reader.

Sommario/riassunto

Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.